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Authors take us on journeys and invite us to settings and places we might not have experienced before. Seeing a place through an author’s eyes is wonderful – visit a castle or a gothic setting, travel back in time and discover the joys of literary travel.

Travel via book means you can be an armchair traveller or one in real life. Here, the Literary Travel Agency guide take you on a journey fuelled with wanderlust.

Books set in New York – One New York Christmas Trail with Mandy Baggot

  • Submitted: 28th November 2018

Mandy Baggot has her book set in New York for a very special reason. Not just as it's called One New York Christmas! It's also…

Book set in Derbyshire, Cuckoo by Sophie Draper

  • Submitted: 26th November 2018

Cuckoo by Sophie Draper is a dark thriller set in Derbyshire. It's a dark and twisted thriller which takes you to a very remote place,…

Books set in New York, Alan Glynn on a Limitless trail

  • Submitted: 22nd November 2018

Did you see the film Limitless? Did you read the book? Remember the story about the man who took a pill and he could then…

Books set in Oxford – Cara Hunter’s crime fiction

  • Submitted: 19th November 2018

There are some great books set in Oxford. It's a very literary city with its links to great writers and there's the great Bodleian library…

Swedish author Jakob Wegelius talks monkeys and more…

  • Submitted: 15th November 2018

This TranslationThursday, I'm very honoured to have the wonderful Jakob Wegelius on the BookTrail. This is the guy who  has written and drawn two books about…

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